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Author:   Ellwood Wiggins
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.480kg
ISBN:  

9781684480371

ISBN 10:   168448037
Pages:   342
Publication Date:   15 February 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

  Overview of Contents ... vii Illustrations ... viii Abbreviations ... ix A Note on Translations and Orthography ... xi Introduction: Performing Recognition ... 1      Interiority Illusion      Instantaneousness Illusion      Recognition as Performance      Aims and Scope of Readings Part I. Marking the Limits of Recognition: Between Aristotle and the Odyssey ... 31 1 “Just as the name itself signifies”: Under the Sign of Recognition ... 37      Nostalgia and Recognition      Recognitions in Mycenae and Sparta      Nostalgic Recognition and Epic Afterness      Self-signification and the Nostalgia of Semiotics 2 “Recognition is a change”: Performance in Motion ... 84      Rhapsodic Mimesis and Narration      Change in Aristotle’s Physics and Poetics      Crying for Show in the Odyssey      Recognition in Performance Theory and Moral Philosophy 3 “From ignorance to knowledge”: Penelope’s Poetological Epistemology ... 131      Penelopean Epistemology (Reading Penelope)      Penelopean Poetics (Penelope Reading) 4 “Into friendship or enmity”: An Ethics of Authentic Deception ... 164 5 “For those bound for good or bad fortune”: Casualties of Recognition ... 193 Part II.    Outing Interiority: Modern Recognitions ... 211 6 Self-Knowledge Between Plato and Shakespeare: Alcibiades and Troilus and Cressida ... 218      Philosophy or Theater?      Mirrored Dramatic Structures      Mirrored Selves 7 Metamorphoses of Recognition: Goethe’s “Fortunate Event” ... 248      “Glückliches Ereignis” as Anagnorisis Scene      Recognizing Action: Visualizing Stories      Recognizing Things: Experiencing Ideas      Recognizing People: Moving Tableaux 8 Epistemologies of Recognition: Goethe’s Iphigenie auf Tauris and the Spectacle of Catharsis ... 292      Spirals of Intertextual Performance      Intertextual Intersubjectivity      Intertextual Spectacle      The Effects of Tragedy 9 Politics of Recognition: Friends, Enemies, and Goethe’s Iphigenie ... 324      Between Recognition and Acknowledgement      The Exception of Friendship      The Promise of Politics 10 The Fate of Recognition: Kleist’s Penthesilea ... 361      The Mirrored Gaze      Plays within Plays Concluding Reflections: Signifying Silence in Blumenberg and Kafka ... 403 Acknowledgements ... 417 Bibliography ... 421 Index ... 448 About the Author ... 449

Reviews

""This is an intelligent, serious, patient, and innovative work. It is also beautifully written: nimble, unaffected, crystal-clear, and often entertaining."" -- Nicholas Rennie * Rutgers University * ""Poised between literary studies, philosophy, and political theory, the elegant Odysseys of Recognition will be of interest to a broad range of scholars. Scholars of the Goethezeit will find much to contemplate, as will classicists and philosophers."" * Goethe Yearbook * ""To take Wiggins at his word, the varied recognitions that result from his painstaking analyses are both decisively conclusive and tantalizingly openended. The point is to learn to be amenable to change in all its potentiality— that is, without settling for a substantial conclusion that would preclude further modification. In this way Wiggins’s assiduous brand of literary criticism acquires ethical urgency. As he beautifully formulates it, given the temporal nature of intersubjective, performative relations, any conclusion “is never fully commensurate with or explanatory of the living complexity of another human."" * Modern Language Quarterly * ""Wiggins’s monograph solicits and breaks ground for further readings in and beyond the texts he addresses. For whether it is a question of the most often cited texts of antiquity, their reinventions in the renaissance, or their adaptations in Weimar Classicism, and romanticism, Wiggins’s interventions will have altered what it means to come to know them."" * The German Quarterly * ""Ellwood Wiggins has produced a learned and thoughtful study of Aristotelian anagnorisis and its applicability to literary texts from Homer to Kleist."" * German Studies Review *

This is an intelligent, serious, patient, and innovative work. It is also beautifully written: nimble, unaffected, crystal-clear, and often entertaining. --Nicholas Rennie Rutgers University

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Ellwood Wiggins is an assistant professor of German at the University of Washington in Seattle.

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